Degrees for Playing Sports?

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Maybe it has something to do with the debate of whether college athletes should be paid for their services. If they aren't getting paid then should they be offered some other benefits for putting in that much time into something that makes money for the school. Problem is there's the top money makers like football and basketball....then there's fencing.

Fence installation is an NCAA sport now?

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Maybe it has something to do with the debate of whether college athletes should be paid for their services. If they aren't getting paid then should they be offered some other benefits for putting in that much time into something that makes money for the school. Problem is there's the top money makers like football and basketball....then there's fencing.

I don't necessarily disagree with the idea of a Professional Athletics degree, however, like some other degree programs, the student/athlete should be required to apply to the program after their sophomore season so that the school is only admitting athletes with a reasonably realistic chance of earning a living as an athlete. (Although whether anyone is making a living playing soccer is highly debatable. I recently read an article that >30% of MLS salaries goes to the top 7-8 players and that most players earn <$40K.) Let's also remember that the average career of a professional athlete is only 3-4 years.